Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27325392-20170704024559/@comment-30155146-20170705190629

http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Merging_communities

I do agree that we need their permission, but I don't think they will refuse. The only issue that some of these other wikis cover that we don't are indivisual pokemon(which are the most likely search terms to reveal these alternate wikis), which is against our Guidelines.

Abandoned wikias can be reclaimed by the process of adoption:

http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Adoption:Requests

Any useful information can be reimplemented here and the staff on the other wikias can now use their work for a more efficeint cause.

Secondly, we do need to sychronize with the development team. Currently, the only thing we coordinate on is encounter rates, and that usually is restrained only to excessively rare pokemon.A prime example of the lack of coordination would be the new #updates channel in the main PBB discord making the current development log only relavent for archiving updates before the channels implementation. New players ask ingame for help answering questions that are difficult to explain, such as the method to find Rotom, but that can easily be answered if they use the Wikia.

In addition, other PBB help orginizations, such as Iso's Pokedex, PBB Help and Advisory, and Youtube tutorial channels need to co-op for the best PBB learning experience, user side.

An (admittedly strict) way to ensure reading of guidelines is to force reading before editing and/or commenting permissions are given. In my opinion, reading only the rule pretaining to the permission that the user wants to unlock should be fine. Userblogs and forum posts would be left unrestricted, and would be encoraged as the primary area of interaction for baseline users.

We should probably adopt the "Roblox Wikis" link box, too. Although a bit unorginized, the LT2 wikia has an example of this box near the bottom of it's homepage.

http://lumber-tycoon-2.wikia.com/wiki/Lumber_Tycoon_2_Wikia